Hockey
Is Hockey Being Lost as a Canadian Game? Hockey, to many Canadiansit is their favourite sport or pastime. This game is a part of Canadian'sheritage. Although with the ongoing "Americanizing" of Canada, it is onlya matter of time before Canada's game is changed as well. The NHL,National Hockey League, is the professional league for hockey. In thepast, and still today, Canadians have made up the greater part of theleagues players. The article NHL Melting Pot gives statistics and a graphof which nationalities were and are playing in the league. In 1967,Canadian born players made up nearly 97% of the NHL. "With the influxof players from other countries, the NHL is beginning to look like theUnited Nations on ice." (Card#3) Now Canadians are only 66.2% of thepopulation in the league. The American born players are slowly sneakingup at 16.6%, the second largest nationality. The gap does not look thattight, however when you consider the time in which this jump has takenplace, it will get closer sooner instead of later. In the article, "The NewIce Age" it gives statistics on the recent jump in American and otherplayers into the NHL. In 1983, out of 21 teams there were
The Winnipeg Jets were yet another Canadian team that had tomove to the U. The NHL, according to Dryden, is not concernedwith the game anymore, only the money. " Foreigners havereally brought a lot to hockey. For many Canadian hockey lovers this doesnot sit very well. The NHL itselfwhich used to be dominated by Canadians is even becoming more andmore like the other U. This is not thekind of hockey people like. The Jets were just another team in the loss tothe American market. " (Card#5) This wassaid by Ken Dryden, a former NHL player in an interview with reporterMary Williams Walsh is Saskatchewan. " said long time seasonticket holder Ron Wersch. Cherry is aretired coach in the NHL, now a broadcaster and to many people afigurehead for hockey, and even more so Canada. leagues as far as the way it is run and the playersinvolved. Hockey being lost as a Canadian game? The game itself may be takingflight down south, but the hearts of Canadians will always have a place forHockey. The fear is that in the end, Canada's culture and society willbe indistinguishable from the U. All he did was Americanize the product.
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